THE CONVERSION OF ZACCHEUS Extracts from a sermon by George Whitefield And Jesus said unto him. This day is salvation come to this house, forasmuch as he also is the son of Abraham. For the Son of man is come to seek and to save that which was lost (Luke 19:9,10). Salvation, everywhere through the …
Issue: Issue 7
TO THE MEMBERS OF A PRAYER MEETING A letter by Robert Murray McCheyne. It has been a matter of great joy to me to hear that you meet together from time to time to read the Word of God and pray — to pray for a blessing on yourselves and families, that you may be …
Were the stock in our hands, we should soon prove broken merchants. God knows we are but leaking vessels; when fullest, we could not hold it long, and therefore He sets us under the streamings forth of His strength; and a leaking vessel under a cock gets what it loseth.
As a child that travels in his father’s company, all is paid for, but his father carries the purse, not himself. So the Christian’s shot is discharged in every condition, but he cannot say, I did this, or suffered that, but. God wrought all in me and for me.
THE TEST I am sure you will admit, with me, that as the Lord’s saving visit to Zacchaeus prompted him at once to assail his besetting sin of covetousness, by saying, “Behold, Lord, the half of my goods I give to the poor; and if I have taken anything from any man by false accusation, …
CHRIST IS OUR ALL Philip Henry 1631-1696 Twice, and but twice is this phrase found in all the Bible. In Colossians 3.11 it is spoken of Christ-‘But Christ is all, and in all’ – and it concerns what He is in this world. In I Corinthians 15.28 it is spoken of God the Father, what …
THE DIVINITY OF CHRIST Maurice Roberts* Nothing ought to matter to us in this life like the getting safely out of it. If we do that, we shall do what is of most importance, even though we shall have done little or nothing here of importance in the eyes of worldly men. On the other …
LACK OF ASSURANCE Extracts from A Lifting Up for the Downcast by William Bridge Sad Reasonings Sometimes the discouragements of God’s people are drawn from he lack of their evidence for heaven. And thus they reason or argue: I am a poor creature, lacking assurance of the love of God and of mine own salvation; …